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by ff317 28d ago
> Imagine if those F35 mounting pylons were used to drop field-portable water-purification systems directly where they are needed most. Except we can (and do!) accomplish that with much simpler airplanes. The staggering costs and comple
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by ff317 1mo ago
I think of the distinction here is about the domains we're coding within. If your software projects are product-y CRUD apps/sites... well, LLMs will tend to perform decently at that, because it's fundamentally pretty trivial
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by ff317 1mo ago
LLMs seem good at things you are not good at... primarily because you lack the skill to actually judge the goodness of their work, and they present their work confidently with an air of authority.
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by ff317 1mo ago
When I apply LLMs to domains where I'm already an expert, I find it particularly lacking when I want it to do deep, difficult, novel work that requires precision. On the surface, the output looks pretty amazing at first. But when I t
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by ff317 3mo ago
It's not quite that simple though. A lot of these edge cases are necessary for everyone to live their cushy little city lives. It's not a matter of outmoded things. We will still need ambulances, and we will still need livestoc
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by ff317 3mo ago
From the content hosting side (getting reamed by scrapers overloading infrastructure), the problem is that we have to be able to set "reasonable" ratelimits to share finite network uplink and server cpu resources between all of ou
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by ff317 3mo ago
I agree with you, for the mass consumer car market (individual/family transport) as a whole. It's coming fast. However, the current EV technology (mostly batteries + charging) is not a good fit for a whole lot of edge cases, and
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by ff317 3mo ago
Quite a bit indeed. Forbes ran an article a few months ago claiming that a family of four with two incomes needs to be earning a combined $400K to be able to reasonably afford the paid child care needed for both parents to be working.
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by ff317 3mo ago
> Many workloads don't need something like Galera [etc...] This continues the faulty line of thinking that open source is just for hobby-level projects or early startup throwaway infrastructure. So many open-core models rely on thi
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by ff317 4mo ago
> Computer interfaces had no superfluous subservient text for their entire history prior to LLMs Clippy would like to help you correct this statement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
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by ff317 4mo ago
I think this also speaks to the heart of the non-political spectrum between "conservative" and "progressive" societal evolution. It's progressive to enact these kinds of changes in the name of supposed convenience,
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by ff317 4mo ago
When we want to maintain a reliable, stable "product" in traditional software development (a binary executable artifact that ships out to users, or the binary engine of some SaaS the company sells to users), we don't just che
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by ff317 5mo ago
Random related data point: for HTTP requests to Wikipedia (and related) for the past 7d, the IP protocol split is roughly 35% IPv6 / 65% IPv4. (this is counting by-request, so heavy usage from a small number of IPv4s can skew it).
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by ff317 6mo ago
The reason speed limits make such a great example for these arguments is because they're a preemptive law. Technically, nobody is directly harmed by speeding. We outlaw speeding on the belief that it statistically leads to and/o
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by ff317 1y ago
It might be interesting for "opportunistic" DoTLS towards authdns servers, which might listen on the DoTLS port with a cert containing a SAN that matches the public IP of the authdns server. (You can do this now with authdns serv
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by ff317 1y ago
I like this argument, but it does somewhat apply to software development as well! The only real difference is that the bulk of the "licensed work" the LLMs are consuming to learn to generate code happened to use some open source
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by ff317 2y ago
https://ziglang.org/ is a solid future C-replacement, IMHO. There's pretty much no downsides and all upsides from a C hacker's perspective. It just hasn't reached 1.0 yet!
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by ff317 2y ago
The hole in the system, though, is fixed-rate loans over the long term, and the ability to refinance relatively-cheaply. If you buy a house when rates and inflation are low, then over the life of the loan you'll win on inflation. All
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by ff317 2y ago
Inflation being a years-long painful problem to wrestle with was inevitable with all the stimulus pumped in to keep us afloat through the pandemic. We could have fared far worse, and many countries did. I don't know why the left didn
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by ff317 2y ago
The laws in question are ambiguously worded and untested-yet in courts. They promise severe financial penalties and prison terms for offenders. I don't blame a doctor for being scared.
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by ff317 2y ago
Why were those "rentiers and parasites" ever involved? Why wasn't the NYT (or any other Thing) just created by the workers without their involvement? The answer in practice is that they provided value by providing the neces
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by ff317 2y ago
I cook on cast iron multiple times a week. Have for years, using a very antique pan from a dead relative. My rules are fairly straightforward. I don't do any other maintenance or cleaning than this after-care routine: * Let the pan
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by ff317 2y ago
What if they live in a country in which genetic evidence of a disease can deny or significantly increase the cost of health coverage? Even if you're clear of those for now, a new marker may be discovered tomorrow. Apparently (accordi
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by ff317 2y ago
That's kind of how I look at it, in practice. I get the mathematical reality that buying lotto tickets is a financial waste. However, if I never buy a single ticket, there is a definite 0% chance I'll ever win the big prize. Wh
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by ff317 2y ago
But it does offer a reasonable hybrid solution: the software in the car doesn't have to solve all possible scenarios, it just has to be good enough to navigate the common, easy scenarios and should always be able to safely handle any s
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by ff317 2y ago
My favorite is American restaurant menus describing a "French Dip" as "with au jus sauce" :)
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by ff317 2y ago
Yeah but it's not just "water", as in plain H2O. All water has different things dissolved or mixed into it. In pools there's commonly several chemicals added to that water: to correct the pH for humans, to sanitize, co
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by ff317 2y ago
The problem is that software development is less like hiring an airline pilot or a structural engineer, and more like hiring an artist. Try making up a "standard exam" that will tell you whether an artist will produce several gre
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by ff317 2y ago
Over the long term of many years you're /lucky/ if a stable very-low-risk investment can net ~3% when accounting for inflation. Thus $250M could maybe net you roughly $7.5M/year. Exactly how many network links, servers
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by ff317 2y ago
What about common spaces? Put the dwellings on the outer edges, and use the middle of each floor around the elevators as: gyms, libraries, swimming pools, saunas, indoor sports/games (pickleball? table tennis? air hockey? retro arcade

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